person
Tanais
also: Tanais
A freedman of Maecenas, reportedly a eunuch; Horace uses him as one pole of an anatomical contrast figuring the doctrine of the mean.
Reading notes
- The Odes §3.10 Tanais
The far northern river (Don); even drinking it, Lyce would pity her suppliant.
- The Odes §3.29 Tanais
The Don, 'at strife within itself,' among the distant threats.
- The Odes §4.15 Tanais
The Don, by whose stream dwell peoples that keep the peace.
- The Satires §1.1 the eunuch Tanais
A freedman of Maecenas, reportedly a eunuch; one pole of a crude anatomical contrast (against the ruptured Visellius' father-in-law) that figures the doctrine of the mean.